Thursday, June 28, 2007

Big Game lost its luster?

Collegefootball.rivals.com summarized a survey of CFL fans on which rivalrys lost their original luster. Over 32% of the 3,600 voters chose the Oklahoma - Nebraska game as the rivalry that "fell the furthest". As you can see on the graph compiled by rivals.com, the Big Game clocked an 18.3% rating.


Bay Area college football fans don't have higher priorities than "The Big Game" match-up between Stanford and California.

But some readers suggested that rivalry has steadily declined since Cal's final-play, five-lateral kickoff return through the Stanford band for a 25-20 victory in 1982.

Cal-Stanford hasn't been the same since, "The Band is on the Field!" said Hokie_Mo9.

Warchant.com subscriber Jgking 83 was even blunter, asking: "Stanford still plays football?

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